[FRC Blog] Kickoff!

[ollien]

Originally Posted by droneexpert87

My apologies if that is what you are referring to. I haven't used twitch in a while since my school blocked it, and I thought you were using the more negative definition of raiding that is used more frequently around the internet.

It can be this, but it's very infrequent. What Jaci is referring to is far more common. I saw a lot of what you're referring to during the champs streams (specifically a lot of people asking where team 420 was, and the like).

[ATannahill]

Is there no special announcement at the Founder's Reception this year?

[jlindquist74]

Every team which has to do ANYTHING more (like use an override login) than what they ordinarily do to get an off-campus connection (sign onto content filters) should document that process and have their head coach e-mail it to frcteams@firstinspires.org on Saturday.

This was an ignorant, irresponsible decision on FIRST's part, and it's one they should have recognized as such at the time they made it. Their own announcement acknowledges Twitch's history as a gaming site. There was no survey sent out asking "Hey, which of these streaming services are blocked by your district's content filter?" So FIRST should get an assessment of just how poor that decision is.

The last time one of my organizations had to request a filter exception[1], it took three weeks of e-mail discussion between various people in district IT, a couple of whom clearly sought reasons to deny it. ("Why don't you do this off campus?") That was three weeks in September, when no one was out on vacation.

[1] Outbound FTP traffic for the football team's game film service[2]

[2] DSV, before they were bought out by Hudl[3], so yes, this was a few years ago.

[3] Haaaaaaaaaaate